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A beautiful judgment upon life
Script: Luke 3.2b-6
Intro: Apollo 17 is possibly the last visit of man to the moon. One step
for mankind three years ago has given us a great deal of information about
the moon, about the evolution of the planetary system, and hopefully some
new information concerning man's origins.
Ray Bradbury science fiction writer and well known for his coverage
of the space program has attempted to state what the implications of our
travels to the moon are. He writes:
For 10 years, the space Age has held a mirror high. Man
staring at it, seeks a new image of himself. So far, he
has found little.
Simultaneously, he notes a Presence just beyond his front
porch. God stands in the yard waiting to be invited in.
So not only must man find a new reflection of himself, he
must also search for a new reflection of God.
No short order this. And, since we are all children of
this space age, perhaps the story of one person's search
for that double-image may be of value.
As a boy I imagined a matriarch God--a bespectacled woman,
plump as a Thanksgiving turkey, rocking in a heavenly rocker,
noting each fallen bird and each boy who ran his day's
gamut of sins. With that womanish grandmother God
abandoned with my toys, for years I found no suitable re-placement.
Then as Sputnik and our own astronauts circumnavigated our
awe, my thoughts turned to man, hoping to find his own image
on other planets. (Story of two priests flying to Mars).
So my martian priests uneasily decided that any shape, no
matter how mysterious or terrible, that knows the difference
between good and evil/and can act accordingly is per se human.
From this day forward we must look neither ahead, behind,
right, left, up or down for our salvation. We are our own
salvation. Let man look in the mirror of his soul and see
there the image of God given into his hands to shelter as a
candle in the mindless wind, the nothingness that blows
through the universe. We are God. We are the keeper and
protector of the Life Force.
That is a beautiful vision of man. The kind of word we need when
we find ourselves a bit down.
I. It is certain that we shall live with a story of our past and future,
a way of seeing, putting it all together.
A. Bradbury is preceeded by many others in his quest for a new story.
1. Norman Vincent Peale--(Jonathan Seagull)
2. Looking through the microscope for the secret to life. Bradbury
looks through the telescope.of his imagination,
3.
With ecstasy he sees mankind writing a new genesis. In the old
__ one God took six days to bring Order out of chaos, and on the seventh

A beautiful judgment upon life
Script: Luke 3.2b-6
Intro: Apollo 17 is possibly the last visit of man to the moon. One step
for mankind three years ago has given us a great deal of information about
the moon, about the evolution of the planetary system, and hopefully some
new information concerning man's origins.
Ray Bradbury science fiction writer and well known for his coverage
of the space program has attempted to state what the implications of our
travels to the moon are. He writes:
For 10 years, the space Age has held a mirror high. Man
staring at it, seeks a new image of himself. So far, he
has found little.
Simultaneously, he notes a Presence just beyond his front
porch. God stands in the yard waiting to be invited in.
So not only must man find a new reflection of himself, he
must also search for a new reflection of God.
No short order this. And, since we are all children of
this space age, perhaps the story of one person's search
for that double-image may be of value.
As a boy I imagined a matriarch God--a bespectacled woman,
plump as a Thanksgiving turkey, rocking in a heavenly rocker,
noting each fallen bird and each boy who ran his day's
gamut of sins. With that womanish grandmother God
abandoned with my toys, for years I found no suitable re-placement.
Then as Sputnik and our own astronauts circumnavigated our
awe, my thoughts turned to man, hoping to find his own image
on other planets. (Story of two priests flying to Mars).
So my martian priests uneasily decided that any shape, no
matter how mysterious or terrible, that knows the difference
between good and evil/and can act accordingly is per se human.
From this day forward we must look neither ahead, behind,
right, left, up or down for our salvation. We are our own
salvation. Let man look in the mirror of his soul and see
there the image of God given into his hands to shelter as a
candle in the mindless wind, the nothingness that blows
through the universe. We are God. We are the keeper and
protector of the Life Force.
That is a beautiful vision of man. The kind of word we need when
we find ourselves a bit down.
I. It is certain that we shall live with a story of our past and future,
a way of seeing, putting it all together.
A. Bradbury is preceeded by many others in his quest for a new story.
1. Norman Vincent Peale--(Jonathan Seagull)
2. Looking through the microscope for the secret to life. Bradbury
looks through the telescope.of his imagination,
3.
With ecstasy he sees mankind writing a new genesis. In the old
__ one God took six days to bring Order out of chaos, and on the seventh